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Technology Stocks : Netscape -- Giant Killer or Flash in the Pan?

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To: Larry S. who wrote (3953)	8/5/1998 5:27:00 PM
From: hamster	Read Replies (3) of 4903

Netscape rumor: takeover in the works... "IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. are scheduled today to unveil the results of their joint development project, JavaOS for Business, and pose it as a thin-client alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows for desktops on a network Rumors on the street say IBM will not deny it has entered into a letter of intent to acquire Netscape Communications Corp. to fulfill this purpose. Netsacpe Communications is the only thin-client platform aside from Mircosofts Internet Explorer to carry out such a purpose. Oracle Corp. is also rumored to support this advancement. "Sun's vision of open-standards network computing is increasingly being viewed as a cohesive ideology that fundamentally confronts the current "Wintel" model (Wintel refers to Microsoft's Windows operating system running on Intel (Nasdaq:INTC - news) chips, which together dominate and dictate to the PC market). Companies like Netscape (Nasdaq:NSCP - news) , Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL - news) and IBM (NYSE:IBM - news) won't shed any tears if the Wintel stranglehold on PCs is broken, and they all have jumped behind Sun's Java programming language and are collaborating in a number of alliances with Sun aimed at advancing the network computing front." - The Online Investor Netscapes intentionally depressed stock price and past stock activity happen to be a single indicator a takeover could be on the horizon. We'll know if these intentions will solidify in the next couple of days."

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